우리 모두는 학창시절 내내 중간고사, 기말고사를 치르고, 수업 시간에 쪽지시험을 보고, 고등학교를 졸업하며 수능을, 대학교를 졸업하며 졸업시험을 보았죠. 인생이란 시험의 연속이라고 봐도 무방할 정도인데요. 작년에 글로벌 교사상을 수상한 한 교사가 지나친 시험을 지적했다고 하는군요. 관련 기사를 함께 볼까요?
‘World’s best teacher’ warns on too much testing
Nancie Atwell, a US teacher who won the Global Teacher Prize earlier this year, was visiting a school in London. on her visit / invitation to Capital City Academy in Willesden, north-west London, she said part of the prize had been spent on fixing the school boilers.
Ms Atwell was demonstrated / demonstrating her award-winning teaching skills in an English lesson to a class of 12 and 13-year-olds, with Schools Minister Nick Gibb watching. Softly spoken and fastidiously polite to the pupils, sitting in a circle around her, she taught a lesson about two poems. She also told them that her own pupils called her by her first name. “I’ve been teaching a long time and something I've learnt is, almost the softer you are, the more attentive they are.”
For teachers, she said an excessive focus on testing and a curriculum based in / on passing a test was “de-professionalising” teaching. “It’s done nothing but decimate morale,” she said.
